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This is a discussion. DO NOT burninate this tag right now

We have a tag. Here's its tag description:

Lab is a simple test utility for node.

Except... it isn't being used that way. I've seen it get used for

  • Questions pertaining to labs at school (questions about homework/projects from school)
  • L*a*b color space
  • JupyterLab

Ideally, a tag should only refer to one thing. Let's go through the burnination criteria:

Does it describe the contents of the questions to which it is applied? and is it unambiguous?

It describes the questions to a degree, but this tag is ambiguous as it can refer to multiple unique topics.

Is the concept described even on-topic for the site?

Likely yes. Jupyter is on-topic, and questions about the color format may be on-topic. Homework questions aren't off-topic, per se, but that would be a Meta Tag, so it shouldn't be a tag.

Does the tag add any meaningful information to the post?

Maybe? Probably yes for Jupyter and the color space, not really for homework questions

Does it mean the same thing in all common contexts?

Nope

Thoughts on what we should do with this tag and/or if it should get burninated?

Credit to @rgettman for the title pun

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    Let's col[lab]orate on a plan for this tag. Some require removal, others require retagging.
    – rgettman
    Commented Feb 28, 2023 at 19:36
  • Let's tidy up the [lab]
    – khelwood
    Commented Feb 28, 2023 at 20:36

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This is a proposal, not an invitation to go and burninate this tag or mass-retag questions

I propose that

  • For questions where it is being used to refer to a school lab, the tag is removed
  • A dedicated tag is created for the L*a*b color space (if one doesn't already exist), and questions are re-tagged to use that when appropriate Questions about the L*a*b are re-tagged to per @Erik A's comment
  • We already have tags for and , so questions can be re-tagged to those as needed
  • A new tag is created for the test utility. Or maybe this tag should be retained for that Node.js project, and a tag warning gets added. As @Erik A suggested, could work well
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    We already have a tag for the LAB color space: cielab. For the current tag, I recommend node-lab, tag warnings don't work
    – Erik A
    Commented Feb 28, 2023 at 8:11
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    From experience, tags with a generic name are consistently misused, and no amount of warnings will work. So you'll need node-lab and to ban lab so nobody can keep using it.
    – Matthieu M.
    Commented Mar 1, 2023 at 13:21

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